Book ID: CBB000302069

Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change (2002)

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Williams, Rosalind H. (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: xv + 252 pp.; notes; index
Language: English

Description A personal narrative of the author's own service as a humanities professor at MIT. The author discusses the implications of technological change in modern society.


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Review Edgerton, David (2003) Review of "Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change". Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (p. 330). unapi

Review Cohen, Clive (2007) Review of "Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. unapi

Review Ceruzzi, Paul E. (2003) Review of "Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 786). unapi

Review Vernon, Keith (2004) Review of "Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 237). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Yermolov, P. P.
Jenny Bangham
James Dawes
Alvarez, R. Michael
Waldenström, Erland
Alexandra Schultheis Moore
Journals
Technology and Culture
Research in the History of Technology
Polhem: Tidskrift för Teknikhistoria
Science, Technology and Human Values
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Engineering Studies
Publishers
SUNY Press
Kluwer Academic
Brepols
Bloomsbury Academic
Ashgate Publishing
Ashgate
Concepts
Development of technology; change in technology
Science and technology, relationships
Technology and society
Technology and culture
Technology
Development of science; change in science
People
Jenkin, Fleeming
Freeman, John
Fortushenko, A. D.
Ellul, Jacques
Collingridge, David
Bush, Vannevar
Time Periods
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
Renaissance
Places
United States
Russia
Great Britain
Crimea (Ukraine)
Manchester (England)
Indonesia
Institutions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
California Institute of Technology
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